Rachel A. Lockart

Rachel A. Lockart is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Educational Studies at Trinity College. As a white settler scholar, her work examines how teacher recruitment, education, and employment policies in Senegal sustain colonial structures, and how educators resist these systems.

Methodological Approach: She utilizes critical ethnographic methods, discourse analysis, and narrative analysis to investigate decolonial educational frameworks. Her interdisciplinary research connects teacher education with postcolonial theory.

Teaching Philosophy: Lockart emphasizes critical examination of schooling experiences through policy and narrative analysis frameworks. Her professional background includes teacher education roles in Cameroon and advising positions at multiple universities.